MACP status calculator
MACP status calculator
Which of the three assured financial upgradations you have crossed, and when the next one falls.
How this is calculated
Financial upgradation falls at ten, twenty and thirty years of service, and three is the lifetime maximum. A regular promotion with higher pay in a later grade displaces an upgradation that would otherwise have fallen.
- Service counted for MACP excludes periods of deputation outside the parent cadre unless the rules of the cadre allow it, so confirm the qualifying service on your own service book.
The Modified Assured Career Progression Scheme gives three financial upgradations across a career, at ten, twenty and thirty years of service in the grade, whether or not a promotion comes.
What qualifies
Service counted for MACP is continuous service in the cadre, computed from the date of the last regular promotion into the grade. It is a financial upgradation only: the pay moves to the next cell of the level, the designation and the grade itself do not change, and it does not count as a promotion for later seniority purposes.
A regular promotion that attracts higher pay than the upgradation would have displaces it — the employee takes the promotion and the count is adjusted under the scheme’s rules rather than the upgradation being added on top.
The three limits
Ten, twenty and thirty years of service are the qualifying intervals, and three is the maximum a career can draw. An employee promoted to the highest level in the cadre stops earning them; an employee whose grade is abolished does not carry the count into the replacement grade automatically. The entitlement is per employee across the whole career, not per grade, which is the point most often missed.
Questions readers ask
Does deputation service count?
Service counting for MACP is governed by the parent cadre’s rules, and deputation outside that cadre is commonly excluded unless the rules allow it. The service book entries are what the calculating authority uses; where the book is silent, the order appointing you is.
When is the upgradation actually drawn?
On the date the qualifying years are completed, subject to the order being issued. Where an order comes late, the pay is fixed prospectively from the due date and the difference is paid as arrears.
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